Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
Save. Windows 7 comes equipped with the Windows Media Player application. Windows Media Player is used to play a variety of music and video files. Although you will need a DVD player installed in your computer to play a DVD movie, most modern systems come equipped with them as a standard feature.